Usually, men and women have meals separately. However, everyone picks up and eats from one pot. (Photo: Komatsu)
After drying it in the sun, this is sifted and kneaded in the hot water, then turns into a main dish. The side dishes are wild vines, something made of Gnetophyta leaves and mushrooms boiled with sauce made from peanuts. (Photo: Komatsu)
A breakfast served at a “village café”: boiled plantain banana and bitter nuts of nightshade. (Photo: Komatsu)
The staple in the northern savannah region is corn. Its powder is kneaded into chunks in the hot water. They call this “cous cous” but it differs from the version found in Northern Africa. This cous cous is served with a simmered sauce made of okura. (Photo: Yasuda)
A family of Baka Pygmies is having supper. They are having boiled bananas with sauce, which is a side dish. (Photo: Hattori)
Pygmy men are eating “safa” (Dioscorea praehensilis), which was just gathered in the forests. (Photo: Hattori)